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In the weeks before the Immigration and Latino-American Culture, students must become reasonably familiar with both PowerPoint and Glogster programs. Working with a partner, each student will be given time on one of our 12 classroom computer stations or laptops to experiment with an assortment of presentation ideas. A check will have to be made that the projection system is up to speed, also. A set of classroom surveys will be undertaken to arrive at a baseline level of knowledge and perceptions of Latino-American culture and an understanding of immigration issues. At least one of those surveys will utilize a Likert-scale of attitudes which will be used again at the end of the unit by students for a self-assessment and to see if one of our unit objectives was achieved. The class will also have to review the sociological concepts of cultural relativism and ethnocentrism and discuss how they might apply in society to the topic of immigration and Latino-American culture.